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talking to myself again!

Just to update this thread, in case anyone is interested, I have been talking to some folks in the Logos forums and think I am making some progress... but no solution to my problem yet.

I do have a work around, however.

In the External Links Manager, there is a preset for Logos NA27 which calls the Nestle Aland 27 w/ Gramcord Greek New Testament in Logos. This was already in the External Links Manager when I installed BW, I think. (I know I didn't come up with it.)

This link, when activated, brings up the correct passage in the NA 27 in Logos 4.

From there I can right click the word I want and get to the Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains. The DBL has links to the appropriate TDNT entry.

So... three or four clicks (depending on my right click context in NA 27) and I can get to the TDNT entry.

I'm still puzzling away at it, trying to find the convenience of one click from BW to TDNT, but this will work for now.

Maranatha!Don JohnsonPastoraaaaaGrace Baptist Church of VictoriaaaaaaVictoria, BCJeremiah 33.3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

beaches

Yes, that would be eh, eh?

There are some lovely beaches part way up our Island, Vancouver Island in Parksville and Qualicum. The water is very shallow there, and goes out quite a way so in the summer it is fairly warm. The summer is a bit short, though. On the Pacific side, the beaches in Tofino are great also, but I get the impression they are colder. They also talk about an undertow, so be careful. Not much between us and Japan on that side.

If I get more info on this issue, I'll pass it along. And of course, any geniuses (genii?) are welcome to help us all out.

Maranatha!Don JohnsonPastoraaaaaGrace Baptist Church of VictoriaaaaaaVictoria, BCJeremiah 33.3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Thanks Don. Yes, I have heard that Tofino is beautiful. I've never gotten off the mainland though. I've been to Grey Rocks. That was nice. In the Vancouver area, Granville Island is beautiful and very charming. Vancouver has some out of this world restaurants. Not to mention, probably the best fish and seafood anywhere.

For the example of Link2 above, I do not know what the hex-bytes are about. I do not know if they are some internal hash code for that resource, or if they are Unicode for the actual Greek Lemma. I have not attempted to see what if anything I get if I use pairs of hex codes and assume they might be Unicode characters. I expect someone will document or explore that one day. If its an internal raw code, then the only way to get a valid reference will be to have Logos4 create it for you. If its a "simple" mapping to Unicode of the lemma, then an external application or program script could, in principle, build such a link.

I wonder if that information might help in enabling an external link via BW?

Is it possible to turn the lemma BW currently exports into some kind of hex code that Logos4 would accept?

Or alternatively is it possible to send a Strong's number from one of the English versions that have embedded Strong's numbers?

Maranatha!Don JohnsonPastoraaaaaGrace Baptist Church of VictoriaaaaaaVictoria, BCJeremiah 33.3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Additional observations

I've read your thoughts here with interest. Also I've looked at the Logos forums as well. It appears that L4 uses UTF-8 codes.

Your example of "Link2" above is a set of UTF-8 hex codes that correspond to each letter.

I've been able to get it go directly to any word in the TDNT by manually coding it, but it would appear that BW does not supply the correct kind of unicode when you select "Lemma." So far I've been unable to determine exactly what BW sends and have not been able to locate that in the help.

So, it seems that the key to this working again is to have BW send the UTF-8 codes for the Lemma.

Update

After Eric's comment above, I sent in a request to BW about exporting Unicode. I received this reply:

Dear Pastor Johnson,
Thank you for writing and for your suggestion. The technology permitting, we want to convert to Unicode eventually, but we'll need to ask your patience, because we have a lengthy list of good suggestions to implement and not very many implementers.

Please continue to submit suggestions. BibleWorks is what it is largely because of the excellent suggestions received from its customer community.

Sincerely,
Rick Gross
General Manager
BibleWorks, LLC

After asking and receiving permission from Rick to post his reply here, he added:

If any of those writing have further comments or suggestions, we’re happy to receive them as well.

Thanks for the response Rick! I hope that this might be implemented soon, but in the meantime, we do have some ways to work around it.

Maranatha!Don JohnsonPastoraaaaaGrace Baptist Church of VictoriaaaaaaVictoria, BCJeremiah 33.3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.